About Track Changes
Use the Track Changes feature to track all changes made to a document. This is useful for a group of translators working on the same document to make revisions or for a reviewer to give feedback on a translation.
Text that is modified when Track Changes is on will appear as deleted or inserted in your document in SDL Trados Studio.
Where Tracked changes can appear
Tracked changes can appear in two locations in your document:
- Source segments
- Target segments
Source segment Tracked changes
Tracked changes in the original source document are displayed in the source segments. However, these changes cannot be amended and new changes cannot be made in Studio.
Target segment Tracked changes
You can track the changes you make in translations in target segments. The translator can then choose to accept or reject tracked changes suggested by a reviewer in target segments. You can do this for one suggested change at a time or for an entire document.
Previewing documents with Tracked changes
When previewing documents that contain tracked changes, you can only see the tracked changes in the preview for Microsoft Word 2007-2013 documents (*.docx). For all other file types, tracked changes will appear as if they are accepted in the preview.